Huawei unveils Ascend 960 AI chips, betting on chip-linking tech to rival Nvidia
Rotating chairman Wang Tao detailed two new Ascend AI chips for 2027 and a chip-interconnect system meant to offset China's lack of the most advanced Nvidia hardware.
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What to know
- Huawei detailed two new AI chips, the Ascend 960DT (Q1 2027) and Ascend 960PR (Q3 2027), positioning them as its answer to Nvidia amid US export controls.
- Because Huawei cannot access the most advanced foreign chips, it is emphasizing UnifiedBus interconnect technology to link many chips into superclusters supporting up to 1 million processors.
- Huawei disclosed ecosystem metrics — over 1,000 supernodes shipped to 370+ customers and 5,270 monthly active developers — to show traction against Nvidia's developer base.
- Analysts flagged as unresolved whether the new chips will be powerful enough to train frontier AI models.
Wang Tao (David Wang) Huawei rotating chairmanHuawei Technologies Chinese tech companyNvidia Market-leading AI chipmaker
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Huawei discloses supernode shipments and developer ecosystem size
Wang said Huawei has shipped more than 1,000 supernode systems to over 370 customers and that its AI chip ecosystem has 5,270 monthly active developers, figures meant to signal traction against Nvidia's established developer base.
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first by Neowin, 6d ago · also Seoul Economic Daily, Digital Trends, Bloomberg, Reuters, Seeking Alpha, Indian Express +7
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- Huawei Moves Up AI Chip Launch, Vowing to Become Nvidia Seoul Economic Daily · 6d ago
- Huawei just laid out its 2027 AI chip plans, and Nvidia is clearly the target Digital Trends · 6d ago
- Huawei Accelerates Launch of New AI Chip to Take On Nvidia Bloomberg · 6d ago
- China's Huawei sets 2027 launch for new AI chips as it targets Nvidia Reuters · 6d ago
- Watch Huawei Speeds Up Launch of New AI Chip Bloomberg.com · 6d ago
- China's Huawei sets 2027 launch for new AI chips as it targets Nvidia, China News AsiaOne · 6d ago
- Huawei Speeds Up AI Chip Launch to Challenge Nvidia The Information · 6d ago
- Huawei debuts 11 AI-related chips in challenge to Nvidia, Intel, AMD asia.nikkei.com · 6d ago
- Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of new AI chip as it takes on Nvidia TechCrunch · 6d ago
- Huawei Speeds Up Launch of New AI Chip Bloomberg Tech · 5d ago
- Huawei Is Ramping Up to New Chips in 2027. What That Means for Nvidia Stock Now. Yahoo Finance · 1d ago
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first by Reuters, 6d ago · also The Irish Times, The Straits Times, Japan Times, Bloomberg Tech, WSJ, Huawei Central +1
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- Huawei set to unveil China's answer to Nvidia AI chips The Irish Times · 6d ago
- Huawei set to unveil China's best answer to Nvidia AI chip reign The Straits Times · 6d ago
- Huawei’s Plan to Become China’s Nvidia WSJ Tech · 6d ago
- Ascend chips took over Nvidia in China's AI market: Huawei Huawei Central · 6d ago
- Huawei shelves global AI chip rollout as China's own demand outstrips supply — 15,488-chip Atlas clusters leverage optical networking to counter Nvidia, scales to 120 EFLOPS Tom's Hardware · 2d ago
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DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng told investors that using more domestic chips for AI training is now a major priority, with Huawei expected to begin deliveries as early as Q4. Note: DeepSeek is training a 2T-parameter model and plans to eventually build an 8T-parameter model.
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Phone memory costs are climbing fast: Counterpoint expects 14% fewer smartphone shipments in 2026. Qualcomm's new Extreme adds 50% more shared NPU memory, but rising DRAM and storage prices may limit how many devices can afford these gains. Watch margin pressure. # Smartphones # Semiconductors # Economics https://www…
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The funding round number is the part I keep coming back to more than the chip story. Raising at a 500B yuan valuation while simultaneously admitting they need to shift pre-training to unproven domestic silicon is a strange signal, that's either supreme confidence that Huawei's stack is closer to parity than public benchmarks suggest, or it's a…
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Wang Tao unveils Ascend 960DT, 960PR chips and UnifiedBus tech
At the Shanghai summit, Huawei rotating chairman David Wang announced the Ascend 960DT (launching Q1 2027) and Ascend 960PR (Q3 2027), and detailed UnifiedBus interconnect technology intended to link large numbers of AI chips into superclusters supporting up to 1 million processors, addressing the constraint that Chinese firms cannot freely buy the most advanced foreign chips.
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first by Mercury News, 6d ago · also AP News, NBC News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Independent UK, Associated Press, The Economic Times
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Huawei Technologies is set to unveil new AI technology this week in defiance of U.S. export control curbs, advancing its ambition to replace Nvidia in China and compete on the global stage. https://www. japantimes.co.jp/business/2026 /09/17/tech/huawei-china-nvidia-ai-chip/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon # business # tech # huawei # china #…
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Reports preview Huawei's new AI chip unveiling
Bloomberg and the Japan Times report that Huawei is set to unveil new AI technology this week in defiance of US export controls, with rotating chairman Wang Tao expected to present upcoming Ascend 960 chips at Huawei's annual summit in Shanghai.
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first by Yahoo Finance Singapore, 1d ago · also TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo! Finance Canada
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- Qualcomm reveals two new smartphone chips focusing on agentic AI Yahoo Finance · 1d ago
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first by The Tech Portal, 6d ago · also Ventureburn, Quartz, TechRepublic
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- Huawei New AI Chip, Ascend60, Launches in Q1 2027 To Challenge NVIDIA Ventureburn · 6d ago
- Huawei is accelerating its next-generation AI chips to challenge Nvidia's dominance Quartz · 6d ago
- Huawei Moves Its Next AI Chip Forward as China Builds Around Nvidia Restrictions TechRepublic · 5d ago
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- Chinese AI not advanced enough yet to deal with safety risks, says Huawei Huawei Central · 6d ago
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1 outlet DevelopingHuawei unveils latest tech to boost AI power in push to break China's Nvidia reliance
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Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chips enable on-device AI, with the Extreme version running a 30B parameter MoE model locally.
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Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally https:// techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/qual comm-launches-two-new-smartphone-chips-with-emphasis-on-ai/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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it's stolen by former employeesin this field. stolen as in unauthorized download of sw codes and attempted to hide login attempts. but it appeared you're aware of the article.
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you are laughing at this? source that it's stolen up and not some people who have worked in this field?
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chinese got ip; most definitely on stolen euv tech. my stomach hurts from laughing so hard.
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Who thinks that? Other companies have already stated they will make thier own chips and AMD has entered in some capacity.
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the first search for EV production puts china at over 70% of the worlds EV production with the EU in second place at 14%.
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Their hardware companies have caught up to NVIDIA, this headline is stupid China also produces the top open source models that are uber cheap to serve
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People think Nvidia will be the only company to ever make GPU. It’s going to be a black Monday when that house of cards comes down. Especially because frontier models will run on your home computer in less than 18 months
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US market will get hit very soon, China is heading o become super power wont stop on this very particular thing.
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SCCOP: DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng is betting BIG on Huawei chips, and he says the bet 'has to work." The company expects to receive a new batch of Huawei chips for AI training as early as Q4. By @JuroOsawa @QianerLiu via @theinformation https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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Huawei’s answer to Nvidia isn’t a faster chip, it’s a much bigger machine https:// thenextweb.com/news/huawei-con nect-2026-ascend-960-superpod-unifiedbus?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into TNW - All Stories @ tnw-all-stories-thenextweb
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Oh, so you would stay idle, probably indefinitely, waiting for something you can’t recognize and most likely doesn’t exist at all? That’s the next level of smart.
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what are you getting these timeframes and dates from? You're either leaking CIA information or you're just pulling shit out of your ass like you know anything.
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TechCrunch AI: China's AI Chip Push Challenges Nvidia Dominance in Global Market Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/huawei-plans-q1-2027-launch-of-new-ai-chip-as-it-takes-on-nvidia/ | Context:
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Huawei Chair Eric Xu: Chinese researchers need to “increase the speed of development so they can also see the dangers of AI development
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Huawei's #Ascend 960 chip development is progressing faster than expected, with performance set to double, #Huawei Deputy Chairman and Rotating Chairman David Wang said at HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 on Thursday. The Ascend 960DT is expected to be ready in the first quarter of 2027, three quarters ahead of...
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Huawei sits at the middle of several key Chinese (and increasingly global) technology crossroads, so more people are rightly paying attention to its announcements. In this case, it pulled forward its Ascend 960 roadmap and spec updates. This has several important derivative signals related to AI, ...
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I'm sure everyone saw this, but Huawei made some pretty big AI chip announcements. First, they've pulled the Ascend 960DT forward from Q4 2027 to Q1 2027. That's three quarters early. Wild. And this is supposed to be a pretty substantial upgrade: 2x the compute, 2x memory bandwidth, 2x memory cap...
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Huawei announced its Peerium Computing Architecture, a new architecture for the AI era that enables processors at the million scale to work as one computer. Powered by UnifiedBus (UB), it supports strong scaling to meet growing demand for AI compute.